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Title
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Moses - VA-SAW20
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Identifier
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VA-SAW20
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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Virginia Gazette
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Date
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May 23, 1771
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Trade
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Sawyer
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Enslaver
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Newman B. Barnes
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Events
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1. Formerly enslaved by Joseph Morton
2. Hired out to Morris Ramsay
3. Self-emancipated from Newman B. Barnes
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Item Type
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Advertisement
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Transcription
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RUN away from Morris Ramsay, in James City county, some time in the year 1769, a mulatto fellow named MOSES, by trade a sawyer, the property of the subscriber; he is about 36 years of age, his size and apparel I cannot describe as he belonged to the estate of Joseph Morton, Gentleman, deceased, and never came to my possession after the division of the said estate. He has a wife named JOAN, the property of Mr. William Morton, that has been with him almost the whole time, and therefore must necessarily suspect that they are harboured by some ill desposed person in or about Williamsburg. Whoever takes up fellow, and conveys him to me in Richmond county, shall receive a reward of SEVEN POUNDS, besides what the law allows; and as such notorious offences are not to be borne with any degree of patience, I will give a reward of TWENTY POUNDS to any person who will purpose the head of the said fellow, severed from his body.
May 7, 1771.
NEWMAN B. BARNES.
N. B. He has been curlawed three weeks.
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gender
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Male
